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When you’re urnning under x64 you have to affect 1 addition spot in the registry to disable this warning – which clearly should only be done by folks that know what they’re doing. NOTE: affecting the registry can be harmful – do so at your own risk. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 Windows Registry...
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When you’re debugging security related things, sometimes you need to take a look at the thread identities user token. When you’re inside of Visual Studio 2010 – in the watch windows you enter ‘$user’ and you’ll get the same as when in windbg with !token –n
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The Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) helps improve the solution experience by putting content closer to the end-user, enhances availability, geo-distribution, scalability, lower latency delivery, and performance. If that’s the goal we want to be sure that when we instantiate the source of...
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Reflector has been invaluable over the years. I’m torn about the idea it’s become a paid for tool, and by all means folks should be compensated for great work. Not sure where Lutz is in the cash flow. But, the ICSharpCode guys have released ILSpy at www.ILSpy.com ( http://wiki.sharpdevelop...
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I recall we had a similar issue when running document conversion services. If you’re attempting Word or PowerPoint viewing and you see errors in the event log regarding AppServerHost.exe – you need to enable non-sandboxing. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/opal/archive/2010/04/25/faq-sharepoint-2010-rtm...
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This post is to report some differences when using MVC or IHttpHandlers if you’re attempting to set the Cache-control : max-age or s-maxage value under IIS7.x using the HttpResponse.Cache methods. [UPDATE]: 2011-3-14 – The missing piece was calling Response.Cache.SetSlidingExpiration(true) as follows...
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Ran into a situation today where after AD FS federation server was installed, configured and up & running, “all of a sudden” it stopped working. Turned out that another installer that affected the default web site, also seemingly affected the AppPools associated to all Applications under the...
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If you are getting a message when you start the Compute Emulator “Systray already running…” from within Visual Studio one fix is to check what the image name is loading is. For some reason, on 2 of my machines the image was loading with the 8.3 format. This caused the logic in the VS tools to not...
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I spent way too many hours on this one. I was going through full configuration of ADFS v2 with WCF active client scenarios and using self generated certificates, had all things lined up perfectly. Using the certificate snap in I just copied the thumbprint into the IdentityModel section (trusted...
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I was taking the Windows Azure CmdLets project and getting it into an MSI just to make it easier to deploy in a nice package. I ran into problems with the Setup project not being able to properly establish the right registry settings for an x64 environment. Even though you set the target platform...
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IE9 adds a nice feature - “Send Feedback” – which, helps you gather a report, even launches the “Problem Step Recorder” (PSR) tool that comes with Windows 7/2008R2 ***. The PSR tool is also usable outside of this feedback and is an optional capture that can be added to the feedback report...
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Many times, especially during development, you could have certificates that are out of date, aren’t singed by any real authority (makecert, etc.), or even don’t match the host name that the request is issued against, but you want to test, etc. One example is if you want to run Fiddler to get a good over...
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This is one I have to jot down. If you’re using tools like Reflector, or just want to open up any of the files in the c:\windows\system32\AppFabric directory, you’ll run into some issues – like, the tool that you’re using complaining that “can’t find c:\windows\system32\appfabric…” errors. On x64...
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Anytime you’re running the Hyper-V role, is a good place to check for any updates that may be affecting either performance or basic troubleshooting. Hyper-V Update List for Windows Server 2008 R2
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If you’ve deployed your WCF Behavior Extension, and you get a Configuration Error, it might just be you’re lacking a space between your “Type” name and the “Assembly” name. You'll get the following error message: Verify that the extension is registered in the extension collection at system.serviceModel...